2017 has been a landmark year of career milestones for rockers Skillet. The band dominated the Billboard Year End charts for 2017 landing at #1 on the Christian Streaming Songs Artists (have held the #1 spot since the charts inception in 2014); #1, #4, #6, and #10 on the Christian Streaming Songs (have held the #1 spot since the charts inception in 2014), #7 Rock Streaming Artist, and #8 Top Christian Artists and #11 Rock Streaming Songs as well as numerous others.  

Hail to the King, baby! Prior to the events of the original Bubba Ho-Tep cult story, Elvis was enlisted by President Nixon to defeat an alien threat unlike anything he’s faced before. IDW and award-winning writer Joe R. Lansdale present Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers!  

Dallas, Texas rock trio JUNK, fronted by actor Billy Blair, have unleashed the full details from their upcoming debut release. Their new EP, entitled ‘Double Soundtrack’, will be released on Friday, January 5th, 2018. Junk recently inked a worldwide deal with Zombie Shark Records, the new record label from Noah “Shark” Robertson (Motograter, The Browning).  

Picking up right where the previous volume left off, Bloom County: Shenaniganary collects year three of Berkeley Breathed’s newest Bloom County strips.  

After a four-year hiatus, Cavo is back. The band will release a special edition of their Bridges album in the New Year on February 23, 2018, via Pavement Entertainment.  

A wise man once said, “don’t cross the streams!” Guess he wasn’t counting on this! Ghostbusters: Crossing Over is the massive 8-issue event series IDW Publishing’s line of Ghostbusters comics have been leading up to which features the original Ghostbusters, the “Answer the Call” crew, and everyone in between from the world of animation and video games. This crossover has them ALL!  

U.S. Progressive Metal pioneers FATES WARNING will be playing a string of shows both in Europe and in the USA/Mexico next month in support of their much acclaimed latest album “Theories Of Flight”.  

Apparently, a new Star Wars coming out this year wasn’t good enough news, Disney is officially set to purchase 21st Century Fox, and with it numerous creative assets that will make comic fans everywhere weep with joy.  

Legendary SLAUGHTER vocalist Mark Slaughter has released a promo video for “HALFWAY THERE” the title track, and third single from his sophomore solo release HALFWAY THERE, in stores now from EMP LABEL GROUP.  

Death metal overlords DYING FETUS announce their first wave of 2018 headline concerts. The brief Northeast US tour starts January 11, features three New York shows (Syracuse, Brooklyn, Waterford) and ends January 14 in Reading, PA. A full list of confirmed tour dates is available below.  

On February 9th, HARM’S WAY will release their fourth full-length, Posthuman, via Metal Blade Records. In support of its release, the band has announced a North American headlining tour with  Ringworm, Vein, and Queensway. The trek will commence on February 17th in Cleveland, Ohio and run through March 18th in Pontiac, Michigan. See below for all confirmed dates. HARM’S WAY w/ Ringworm, Vein, Queensway: 2/17/2018 The Foundry – Cleveland, OH 2/18/2018 Sneaky Dees – Toronto, ON 2/19/2018 Lost Horizon – Syracuse, NY 2/20/2018 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY 2/21/2018 Middle East – Worcester, MA 2/22/2018 Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA 2/23/2018 Canal Club –... 

Avengers: Disassemble! The epic weekly takeover continues this February when Paco Medina takes the reigns to draw the third month of Marvel’s biggest team adventure, and Marvel is excited to reveal the covers for issues #683 – #686 of AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER by Mark Brooks as well as the first look at February’s interlocking variant covers by Nick Bradshaw! Month three of AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER takes its epic storytelling to another level, as Jarvis’ life hangs by a thread and the Black Order is on the attack. And as if the Avengers don’t have enough to worry about, they’ll need to deal with a betrayal of one of their own. Co-written by Mark Waid, Al Ewing and Jim Zub with art by Pepe Larraz, Kim Jacinto...